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Again been busy with work and travelling, this time Poland. I admit I went with trepidation as I expected the worst but what a lovely city Warsaw is. It was nice to relax for a few days. The blog does get left a bit nowadays but things should settle soon enough, work has been ultra busy but that is always good.

So, I have managed some gym sessions recently and saw a friend I haven’t seen for a long time. Nice guy but makes bad decisions, I mean my history isn’t amazing but this guy takes the biscuit. Years ago we were working on the same sorting aisle at the Royal Mail, on my final week he was fired! Fired for theft actually, for stealing money from cards. When you heard why, you had to wonder how someone can let themselves be so controlled that they need extra money. So why did he do it? Well he met a girl who dreamed of champagne lifestyle yet he was on a fish and chip budget. He went and promised her the world and had to steal to fund it, silly silly boy. Inevitably, when the money stopped, she left him. Sounds a bit like my ex actually!

So, back to the gym. I saw him and had a good catch up and quite by chance we got onto finances where I explained what a nightmare I had had (without the finer details obviously) with the HMRC. His eyes widened as he listened to how I managed to finally get out of it and then he butted it with “The HMRC are after me”.

Oh my poor boy, pray tell why? So, he was self-employed for a while and then gave it up but didn’t factor in he would still have to pay tax. He owes £15,000, which compared to what I owed them didn’t faze me at all. He explained how he had ignored every letter and it didn’t matter as they all went to his parents address and he didn’t live there.

I tried to give him the words of wisdom needed, wisdom gained from personal experience as you all know. They will find you I said, they will turn up at your parents address and so forth. I felt sorry for him until I asked him if he had anything to sell, his reply was this:

“Nope, only my brand new Jag”.

Pardon me? the brand new top of the range Jaguar sports car you are driving? I asked why he didn’t sell the 40 grand car, pay off the HMRC and still then have enough for a top of the range car. Sadly his reply is unprintable but along the lines of why should he.

You see, this is my big issue, why was I persecuted to the point of breakdown when I was actually making payments and had paid back an obscene amount of money yet this guy is giving them the middle finger and living the high life. My issue is that the HMRC fails to treat everyone the same, I was once told they will target you more if they feel you have the money. That is why they were on my case every single week.

My own ethics don’t allow me to tip them off, but I would love to. I lost respect for him then and there, I struggled for years.

But, the poor deluded fool truly believes it will be this way forever. It won’t…they will find you and they will take your car.